An illustrated talk by BASIL Lam , who discusses Beethoven's approach to opera in Leonora and Fidelio
He argues against the generally accepted view of Leonora as a mere first attempt at Fidelio and maintains that they are two separate achievements.
Opera in three acts
Libretto by SONNLEITHNER and TREITSCHKE after
Bouilly Music by Beethoven
Recorded in Germany
Cast in order of singing:
CHORUS AND Orchestra OF THt: BAVARIAN RADIO
Chorus-Master, Josef Kugler Conductor, HANS ALTMANN
The action takes place at a State Prison outside Seville during the eighteenth century
Act 1: A room in the head jailer's house
Recording made available by courtesy of the Bayerischer Rundfunk: first broadcast in the Third Programme on December 22. 1950
BERNARD BERGONZI argues that the great age of experimental fiction ended with Joyce and Proust, and that the task of the novelist today is one of consolidation Second broadcast
Act 2: The inner courtyard of the prison
1263)
A poem sequence by GEORGE MACKAY BROWN
Readers: MARGARET WOLFIT JAMES McKECHNIE BRYDRN MURDOCH Produced by STEWART CONN
Act 3: A dungesn in the vaults of the prison
A series of scientific case-histories
5: Paying Attention by DONALD BROADBENT
Director of M.R.C. Unit of Applied Psychology, Cambridge ' About ten years ago I published an experiment which showed, or so I thought, that if you're attending to one source of information, it takes time to shift attention away to something else.' Two Oxford undergraduates challenged Mr. Broadbent's conclusion, and everyone had to think again.
This talk will be printed in ' The Listener ' dated November 14
The Edinburgh Spectrophone, by Prof. T. L. Cottrell : Nov. 17
by Jennifer Dawson
Quartet in E flat major PIERRE PIERLOT (oboe)
JACQUES LANCELOT (clarinet) PAUL HONGNE (bassoon) GILBERT COURSIER (horn) on a gramophone record
